This was written by Octavia Butler in 1998…the truth in it is staggereing: Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be […]

Here I am in the most developed country I’ve visited in quite a while and for once I NEED to stand out so that i can arrange formal/informal talks as part of my obligations as a rotary scholar. But here, in the midst of English speaking zed, I am the least “interesting” I’ve been in […]

I have a friend who jokes about being a miscegenation. He contains multitudes and adamantly refuses to be put into a little American box meant to define him The zed, at least Auckland, is a lesson in that same kind of hybrid. On campus, very few people check a single box. This afternoon while lolling […]

so friday night i decided to go to this concert. i met this english sista in the park on thursday and she was teaching me to poi (long chains with balls -sometimes on fire- on the ends that you swing and dance with) when we were approached about this concert. the flier grabbed my interest […]

look what one of my friends discovered…you rock man!2 entries found for Nauruan. NaÂ·uÂ·ru Audio pronunciation of “Nauruan” ( P ) Pronunciation Key (nÃ¤-r) Formerly Pleasant Island. An island country of the central Pacific Ocean just south of the equator and west of Kiribati. Inhabited by a population of mainly Polynesian ancestry, Nauru was […]

NWA…it was walking past me at a clip and I couldn’t resist but to reach out so I could get a better look. The guy wasn’t European…maybe pacific islander â€“ I’m not clued in yet on who looks like what except that apparently I look Fijian. Anyway, below the bold letters, white against a black shirt, […]

*lets begin with some definitions shall we.boob in the first context refers to my ample boosom. bras in this case refers to the shopping excursion for, shall we say corrals for said ample boosom, that i shopped for before i departed for nz.boob in this context is an idiot.that straight let me share a little […]

Today was a lounging kind of day. Different from the last few in that I’ve actually been in my room for a few hours â€“ in that I plan to cook dinner for myself. Even so, it has been event filled. I rode my first bus. I don’t know why that is a big deal to […]